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Albert Camus

Born

in Mondovi, French Algeria

November 07, 1913

Died

January 04, 1960

Genre

Fiction, Philosophy

Influences

Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edmund Husserl, H ...more

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Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel Prize of 1957 for literature.

Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work.

He also adapted plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Requiem for a Nun of William Faulkner. One may trace his enjoyment of the theater back to his membership in l'Equipe, an Algerian group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.

Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectu ...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 2,367,522 ratings · 151,441 reviews · 983 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,526,243 ratings — published 1942 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Plague 4.02 avg rating — 332,911 ratings — published 1947 — 407 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fall 4.02 avg rating — 146,053 ratings — published 1956 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Myth of Sisyphus 4.16 avg rating — 108,895 ratings — published 1942 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays by Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien (Translator) 4.21 avg rating — 67,044 ratings — published 1942 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Happy Death by Albert Camus, Richard Howard (Translator), Jean Sarocchi (Afterword & Notes) 3.80 avg rating — 27,654 ratings — published 1971 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus, Anthony Bower (Translator), Herbert Read (Foreword) 4.13 avg rating — 19,915 ratings — published 1951	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Caligula 4.09 avg rating — 18,407 ratings — published 1944 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exile and the Kingdom 3.82 avg rating — 16,703 ratings — published 1957 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Man 3.96 avg rating — 13,020 ratings — published 1994 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Albert Camus (?)

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

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Persuasion by Jane Austen pub 1817, 247 pages, Last read April 2018

41 votes, 22.5%

The Plague by Albert Camus 308 pages, published 1947. last read June 2015

28 votes, 15.4%

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius first published 180, 100-300 pages. Last read June 2020

25 votes, 13.7%

The Awakening by Kate Chopin 195 pages, pub 1899 last read Dec 2015

24 votes, 13.2%

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy First published in 1895, 310 pages. Last read Oct. 2018

23 votes, 12.6%

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 1826. 410 pp (incl. material). Last read Aug. 2017

21 votes, 11.5%

Villette by Charlotte Brontë 573 pages, published 1853. Last read in April 2017

20 votes, 11.0%

182 total votes

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